February 21, 2013

Best photo from Nats spring training so far? The pic above from Thursday morning in Viera could take the prize: 5 Nats piled on a golf cart, Bryce Harper and Danny Espinosa in the back. Ah, spring training...

No offense to Matt Chico, Mike Bacsik, Jason Bergmann, Tim Redding, and Jason Simontacchi, but the photo above of the Three Aces + Detwiler and Haren Tweeted this morning by @Nationals is yet another reminder of how things have changed around these parts in just a few short years. Zimmermann, Detwiler, Gio, Strasburg, and Haren. That's a rotation, folks.

February 18, 2013

(Above: At least Mike Rizzo, seen here chatting in Viera via a screencap from this CSNWashington.com video, appears to be in the best shape of his life.)

Oh, sure, expectations are sky high for the Washington Nationals; but two days into full-squad workouts and not a single player quoted in the media as being in the best shape of his life? Well, Mike Rizzo nearly absolved the entire team of this abomination in comments captured by the Washington Post's Adam Kilgore on Monday: